IEEE Cloud Computing’s First Ever Initiative in India Unveiled

IEEE Cloud Computing, a key initiative of the world’s largest technical professional association, today announced that it is hosting its first ever conference in India. The two day high-powered IEEE Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets (CCEM) Conference in Bangalore on the 11th and 12th of October 2012, stands apart from other events on cloud computing… Continue reading IEEE Cloud Computing’s First Ever Initiative in India Unveiled

Report: 67% of Organizations Are Using or Considering Private Clouds

InformationWeek Reports, a service provider for peer-based IT research and analysis, announced the release of its latest research report. 2012 State of the Data Center encompasses analysis of results from InformationWeek’s recent State of the Data Center Survey and offers guidance on how far to drive virtualization and how to balance the benefits and drawbacks… Continue reading Report: 67% of Organizations Are Using or Considering Private Clouds

Capsilon Releases Katalyst 8 to Improve Cloud-Based Document Collaboration and Imaging

Capsilon, a provider of cloud-based document sharing, imaging and collaboration solutions for mortgage lenders, has released Katalyst 8, the newest version of the company’s electronic document management and collaboration solution, which includes a re-architected image conversion system, a more sophisticated automated document recognition capability and a new high-performance desktop application. Katalyst 8 gives mortgage lenders… Continue reading Capsilon Releases Katalyst 8 to Improve Cloud-Based Document Collaboration and Imaging

Polycom, IBM to Accelerate Cloud-Delivery of Video Collaboration Applications

Polycom, the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC), today announced an initiative with IBM Research to co-develop next-generation innovations that are designed to further accelerate cloud-delivered video collaboration applications to support key vertical and social uses. Under the initiative, Polycom will work with IBM Research to explore and develop technologies that leverage the… Continue reading Polycom, IBM to Accelerate Cloud-Delivery of Video Collaboration Applications

Cloud-Based Video Surveillance-as-a-Service Showcased at ASIS 2012

Salient Systems Corporation today announced CompleteView™ Cloud, a hosted video surveillance service powered by Dell OEM Solutions. Salient Systems utilizes Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service at the platform level to host customer videos and provide a simple interface where users can easily access the complete solution. CompleteView Cloud provides a secure cloud-based solution… Continue reading Cloud-Based Video Surveillance-as-a-Service Showcased at ASIS 2012

Top Considerations for Cloud, Virtualization and Security

Virtualization and cloud computing are all finding their way into today’s IT environments. More than before, small and medium enterprises are now looking into cloud and virtualization solutions to help meet business goals. With this new technological movement come some very important considerations to ensure optimal infrastructure efficiency. Security, sizing, management, and deployment methodologies must… Continue reading Top Considerations for Cloud, Virtualization and Security

Survey: Companies Still Struggling with Cloud Security

Globally, the cloud continues to pose challenges on how to deliver agile, yet secure, IT services to enterprises. The percentage of companies that reported a data security lapse or issue with their cloud service increased from 43 percent in 2011 to 46 percent in 2012, according to a recent global cloud security survey conducted by… Continue reading Survey: Companies Still Struggling with Cloud Security

Zend Partners with VMware to Run Enterprise Web Applications in the Cloud

Zend, the PHP company, today announced an integrated solution for VMware vFabric Application Director™ that makes it easy for enterprises to move their virtualized PHP applications to a fully-automated cloud environment. The integration of Zend Server, the #1 PHP application platform, with VMware vFabric Application Director equips enterprises to seamlessly deploy and manage enterprise-class PHP… Continue reading Zend Partners with VMware to Run Enterprise Web Applications in the Cloud